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56 Cards in this Set

The student expresses ideas through original artworks, using a variety of meadia with appropriate skill

Historical/cultural heritage

The student demonstrates an understanding of art history and cultures as records of human achievement

Critical Evaluation

The student makes informed judgments about personal artworks and the artworks of others

Line

The path of a moving point, a mark made by a tool or instument as its is drawn across the surface

Shape

A two dimensional area that is defined in some way, perhaps with an outline or solid area of color, Shapes may be also implied.

Form

Objects that have three dimensions (lenght, width and depth)therefore have mass and volume

Space

Shapes and forms exist in space. On a flat surface, artists can employ various means to imply the illusion of three dimensional space such as modeling to show volume, objects diminishing in size as they move to the background, overlapping and showing more detail and brighter colors in the foreground with duller colors and less detail in the distance

Texture

The way a surface feels or appears to feel if you could touch it

Color

The aspect of objects caused by varying quality of reflected light to describe. Colors appeal directly to our emotions and can stand for ideas and feelings

Value

The relative lightness or darkness, whether in color or in black or white

Rhythm and Movement

The repetition of visual elemnets, such as shapes, lines or spaces, Visual rhythym creates the sensation of movement as the viewers eyes follow the "beats" through a work of art

Balance

The arrangement of elements in works of art. This may be symmetrical, asyymmetrical, or radial

Proportion

The relative size of one part to another

Contrast

The degree of difference between colors, shapes, tones,or other elements in a work of art

Variety

Combination of elements using diversity and change. Too much sameness might be dull:thus artists add variety to their work to make it more interesting

Unity

Allows the viewer to see a complex combination as a complete whole. If all the parts are joined together in such a waytheat they appear to belong to a whole, the work of art will be unified

Emphasis

Center of interest in a picture; the focal point. Artists generally designate the most dominant part of the work by using some of the elements above to emphasize the most important point

Usually more color-dependent than drawings, Use acrylics, tempera and watercolor

Printmaking

An original artwork made in multiples, Images are raise or scratched into a surface, and ink is rolled onto the surface, Either the raised partor the nonscratched part is then pressed or stamped onto paper or fabric. This can be repeated. Fingerprints are a basic form of this artform

Collages

Paper fabric, anf various found materials combined to adhere to a surface. Making collages is not just cutting things sout a magazine and pasting on what you like. They involve placement and thought abourt the other elements of art and principles of design and usally revolve around a central idea

Sculpture

Feee standing, three dimensional and viewed from all sides. These include carving,modeling, casting and assembling

Fiberarts

Use of textiles or fabrics, yarns, threads, etc to produce weavings, quilting, needlework, basketry and fiber sculpture. Fiberarts can also include the spinning of yarn and thread from raw matierials

Electronic media

Technology assisted image making. theis may include draw and paint software programs or more exlicit programs like adobe photoshop.

Paleolitic

25,000 BCE First examples of pigment being placed on a surface (cave drawings ) ABstract sculptural figures in stone

Egyptian

(3000 BCE) Art and architecture reflect concerns with order and rationality. Unparalleled naturalistic style in sculpture

Greek Art

500-325 BCE Art and architecture reflect concerns with order and rationality, Unparalled naturalistic style in sculpture

c 1300 Pointed arch introduced, along with butress system lending extraordinary height to the interior

Developments in Islam and asia

600-1100 Principal form of Islamic arthitecture is the mosque, featuring a tower used in calling to prayer

Renaissance

1350-1650 Ever increasing naturalism, linear perpective inventeed; exactness and order is reborn form the classical greek and romal times. the importance of the individual is emphasized. Exploration takes these new ideas to Germany and the Netherlands

Art in China

Landscape Painting is held as a pursuit of the founding principle of the universe and therefore is the highest artform. Exiled artists make political art showing bamboo that will bend but not break under the mongol rule ond orchids that flourish without soil around their roots

Most notable for its theatricality and drama in art that is achieved by use of light and monumentalizing

Rococo

Curvilinerar style of the Baroqued is modified and refined to be more delicate. Painting and sculpture begin to reflect sensuality

Romantiscism

Color and expression of subject matter reign supreme. Painting shows passioin of subject. In landscape painting , human's insignificance in the face of the infinite is called sublime

Realism

Romantic idealism fades in favor of the depiction of reality _ the here and now especially in the face of the reality of war

Impressionism

Focuses on the plesures of life, backing off from realism and social realism. Leisure is the main subjec, Optical mixing is interesting and thre fleetingness of time becomes key to represent

Post- Impressionism

No dominant visual style, but there is an increase in the expressive possibilities of color, they critique modern life and the elitist qualities of the impressionists

cubism

Trying to see the three-dimensional word in two dimensional terms. Emphais on trying to see the worle in terms of the cylinder, the cone, the sphere and the cube

Futurism

Champions spped, motion, energy and the machine, Painting and sculpture show movement

Dada

ARt reflects a nihilistic point of view, Nonsensical juxtapositions of ideas attach tradition and challenge the status of arts's sacred and precious images

Surrealism

More positive than Dada, exploration of dream imagesand incorporation of chance events into compositions

Abstract Expressionism

Energetic use of line and color along with the ablility to document the actions of the artist

Pop Art

Art reflects more humoruous, less serious approach, Common images from popular culture, advertising, television, magazines abound. The transformation of the commonplace into monumental is a dominant theme

Minimalism

Artists seek to simplify in the face of the excess of 1950s culture. the notion of space and the matierial prescence of shapre and form are key

Postmodernism

Pluarlistic art incorportates diverse ideas and cultural values. Art reflects new and old technologies intermixed. Reevaluation of traditional canons of art histary, particularly roles of women artists. The question of identity is key along with other social and political issues

Knowledge

Students recall terminology, titles, dates. They recognize names, identities, labels and are able to examine, show and collect information

Studnets go beyond the concept or principle they have learned and use that principle in a new imaginative or hypothetical idea. They can expericment, predict, imagine and hypothesize as they attempt to solve problems

Analysis

Students make connnections and establish relationships, categorize, compare and infer, classify and arrange, and organize and group information

Synthesis

STudents critically design, plan, combine, construct and produce

Evaluation

STudents critically examine their own work and the work of others as they learn to criticize, judge, appraise and make decisions